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Robert Jnglin Wills

Robert Jnglin Wills is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich and leads the Climate Dynamics Group. Robert and his group use a combination of climate modeling, physics-based theoretical understanding, and data science methods to pursue research on a broad range of topics in climate science. Current projects focus on mechanisms determining the pattern of tropical climate variability and change, the up-scale influence of mesoscale processes on large-scale dynamics, future changes in climate variability, and statistical methods for separating forced and unforced components of climate change. These research topics are part of a broader mission to understand how global climate change manifests at the regional scale.

When small-scale turbulence imprints on the global atmospheric circulation: Uncovering the Cause of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Bias in ICON

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When small-scale turbulence imprints on the global atmospheric circulation: Uncovering the Cause of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Bias in ICON

One feature stands out in any map of tropical rainfall from satellites: a narrow band of intense precipitation encircling the globe near the equator. This is the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a key feature of the global atmospheric circulation that imports moisture into the tropics and exports energy to higher latitudes. But for decades, climate models …[Read More]